Naval

Connecting the Four Theories into a Unified Whole 0:34

Emergence Is Fundamental 3:18

Constructor Theory Could Transform Multiple Fields 8:30

Innovation Often Emerges Unexpectedly 22:46

Knowledge Evol…

Proving something about AGI is inherently impossible 0:00

Creativity is not just mixing things together 3:05

The superiority of explanatory knowledge 7:48

Knowledge laden information is more resilien…

The universality of computation and explanation 0:00

The growth of knowledge begins with problems 4:56

Problems are clashes between ideas 9:57

Evolution is not the survival of the fittest 14:50

Bad p…

Good Science Fiction is Hard to Vary 2:08

ChatGPT is Not a Step Towards AGI 5:36

Creativity is Fundamentally Impossible to Define 13:35

The Binary of Personhood and Non-Personhood 23:41

David Deutsch…

Popper’s Impact 0:00

Creative Guesses 2:18

Experiments, Demonstrations, and Measurements 4:25

Taking Theories Seriously 10:25

New Paradigms 15:58

Foundations of Science 23:30

The Enlightenment 25:39

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Introduction 0:00

The Human Race 2:11

Knowledge Creation 12:34

AGI 15:50

Taking Children Seriously 23:30

Good Explanations 27:49

Quantum Computers 36:35

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The elder statesman of smart contract blockchains 0:00

The Ethereum community 1:22

The DAO hack 2:34

Vitalik’s finest and worst moments in protocol politics 5:18

Becoming a Twitter memelord 7:45

Vita…

Introduction 0:00

Haseeb’s background 0:22

Vitalik’s background 2:43

A blockchain you can build any app on top of 7:02

Eth trades efficiency for transparency 10:18

Like plain text, Eth is simple and …